However, attempts made in closed-door sessions at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China's Central Committee in September 2009 to grapple with these problems produced inconclusive results, although a directive which requires disclosure of investments and property holdings by party and governmental officials was passed.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.

Since the 17th Party Congress, Li's influence has considerably waned and he is no longer active on China's political scene, partially owing to the corruption issues that plague him and his family.

He was, however, invited to the 17th Party Congress in 2007 as a special delegate.

For example, in 2007, CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao told the 17th Communist Party Congress that China needed to increase its soft power, and the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke of the need to enhance American soft power by " a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian instruments of national security -- diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action and economic reconstruction and development.

One of his many special election opponents was the second-place finisher by only 115 votes in his 1978 Democratic Party primary, the then newly-elected State Senator Chet Edwards of Waco, and later U. S. Representative for the 11th and the 17th congressional districts of Texas ( January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2011 ).

Of these, Yu Zhengsheng, son of Huang Jing ( 黄敬 ), former mayor of Tianjin, was already a member of the powerful politburo of the CCP ; Wang Qishan, son-in-law of Yao Yilin ( former vice premier and member of politburo ), mayor of Beijing ; Xi Jinping, Bo Xilai, Zhou Xiaochuan, son of Zhou Jiannan ( former minister of First Machinery Ministry and Jiang Zemin ’ s former boss ), governor of the People's Bank of China, have also occupied important positions since the 17th Party Congress.

Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, and its successor, the Liberal Party.

In preparation of the 17th National Party Congress in 2007, new restrictions were placed on all sectors of the press, Internet-users, bloggers, website managers, foreign journalist, more than 30 of which have been arrested since the start of the year.

During the 17th Party Congress Zeng departed from the Central Committee, its Politburo, and the Politburo Standing Committee.

* 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

* The Mobile Party, the people in the streets, appealed to by an English politician lacking support in Parliament ( 17th & 18th centuries ).

In January 1990 the Croatian Party delegation led by Ivica Račan left the 17th Congress of SKJ, few hours after the Slovenian Party delegation did so over a row with the Serbian Party delegation.

In 1934, the 17th Party Congress did not elect a General Secretary and Stalin was an ordinary secretary until his death in 1953, although he remained the de facto leader without diminishing his own authority.

Robert Lorne Stanfield, PC, QC ( April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003 ) was the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

At the 17th Party Congress in October 2007, Bo gained a seat on the 25-member Politburo, effectively China's ruling council.

** Country Party ( Britain ), opponents of the Court Party and the government, late 17th early 18th century

* Harold Holt PC CH-Liberal Party politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia.

On April 17th, 1958 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a plant for heavy-duty vehicle production in Kremenchuk.

The people of the 17th District of New York, and I as their Representative in Congress, take great pride in the New York Times as one of the great and authoritative newspapers of the world.

Of the 139 members elected to the Central Committee at the 17th Congress, 98 people were killed in the period 1936 – 40.

Putnam ’ s request was granted by the United States Congress, and thus an appropriation bill was passed on April 17th, 1900.

Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U. S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.

In the PRC, their ascendance to power began in 2008 at the 17th National Congress of the CPC.

* Edward B. Jackson: Member of the 16th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pindall and reelected to the 17th Congress, served from October 23, 1820, to March 3, 1823

At the 17th CPC National Congress, Hu was re-elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission on 22 October 2007.

The 17th World Congress of Sexology in Montreal in July 2005 included a presentation on bukkake.

He was elected as a Democrat to Congress from Ohio's 17th District, defeating Lyle Williams, a three-term Republican incumbent.

# 17th Congress ( Shiqi Da ) ( 十七大 )

* Leon Panetta, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Obama Administration, Former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Former Director, United States Office of Management and Budget, Former Member of U. S. Congress, 17th District

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

* April 26 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1930 )

Throughout the 17th century Black children sold for £ 8, women from £ 10 to £ 20, and able bodied Black and Indian men for around £ 26.

Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS (; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941 ) was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th century concept of integration — summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Prince of Mindelheim, KG, PC (, often ; 26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O. S ), was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs through the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The withdrawing aircraft from both fields were flown to an airfield on Bataan near Pilar, which had been graded by Filipino hand labor in rice fields, with revetments built and camouflaged in one day on 26 December by the 17th PS.

One of the earliest of these was the " prediction " that the author's " good Friend and Fellow-Student, Mr. Titan Leeds " would die on October 17 of that year, followed by the rebuttal of Mr. Leeds himself that he would die, not on the 17th, but on October 26.

Archeological evidence suggests that by the 17th century BCE, the Canaanites had built massive walls ( 4 and 5 ton boulders, 26 feet high ) on the eastern side of Jerusalem to protect their ancient water system.

The aliquot sum of 86 is 46 within the aliquot sequence ( 86, 46, 26, 16, 15, 9, 4, 3, 1, 0 ) 86 being the 17th composite number in the 3-aliquot tree.

The season proved to be successful to begin with, with the Robins remaining close to the play-off positions, but they collapsed in the second half of the season and finished 17th, with only five wins in 26 games in 2011.

The 17th Pursuit Squadron was therefore transferred to its old base at Nichols Field, and shortly afterward, on October 26, the 3d Pursuit Squadron took its place at the new Iba Airfield and began gunnery training.

On November 26, the 17th Army notified Imamura that it faced a critical food crisis.

The device consisted of 25 aluminium discs attached to a four-and-a-half inch long rod, each disc containing the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet in scrambled order around its circumference ( with the exception of the 17th disc, which began with the letters " ARMY OF THE US ").

John Havlicek is the Celtics all-time leader in points and games played, scoring 26, 395 points ( 20. 8 points per game, 11th all-time in points scored in the NBA ), and playing in 1, 270 games ( 17th all-time ).

Lawrence was 26 years old, and a sergeant in the 17th Lancers ( Duke of Cambridge's Own ), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, ( May 5, 1927 – September 26, 2012 ) was a Canadian scientist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

The objects in the collection include 26 suits of Japanese samurai armour dating from the 17th and 19th centuries ; bicycles ; toys ; musical instruments and more.

Ogyen Trinley Dorje (; born June 26, 1985 ), also written Urgyen Trinley Dorje (; or Orgyen Trinley Dorje or Ugyen Trinley Dorje ), is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

On 26 January 1595 he married Elizabeth de Vere, daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.

:* Final — 1: 28: 26 (→ 17th place )

Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U. S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.

* Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset 4 May 1942 – 26 April 1954

On February 26, 2009, in congressional remarks, Congressman Ed Whitfield ( R-KY ), solemnly recognized the 17th anniversary of the massacre at Khojaly, and honored the lives of those lost in this great tragedy.